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POLITICS AGAINST TRUMPISMJohn Nichols -
December 2018

By John Nichols.
“Donald Trump has been framing the narrative of American politics since he launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in June 2015. A master of media manipulation who utilizes...

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NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE ACTIONTim Judson -
December 2018

New publication by Tim Judson.
When nuclear power started to develop into an ever more important source of electric energy during the second half of the twentieth century, there grew widespread optimism regarding the...

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MAPPING JUST TRANSITION(S) TO A LOW-CARBON WORLDJust Transition Research Collaborative -
December 2018

By the Just Transition Research Collaborative.
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and the University of London Institute in Paris are...

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HOW BOLSONARO CAME TO PASSEsther Solano Gallego -
November 2018

By Esther Solano Gallego.
Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidential election with more than 55% of the vote. With only eight seconds of television campaign advertising and an unknown party, this result...

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THE NOVEMBER POGROMS, EIGHTY YEARS ONMichael Brie -
November 2018

By Michael Brie. It’s difficult for me to write about it today. I was born in 1954, sixteen years after the pogrom in the night of 9–10 November 1938. And yet I still wake up time and again from nightmares in which...

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THE DEMOCRATS BEFORE THE MIDTERMSMoritz Wichmann -
October 2018

Is there a leftward shift currently taking place in the Democratic Party? Are people in the United States actually moving to the left on an issue-by-issue basis, in spite of the current rightward tilt of all three branches of...

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QUÉBEC SOLIDAIRE’S ELECTORAL BREAKTHROUGHRoger Rashi -
October 2018

By Roger Rashi. Summing up the October 1st provincial election results, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, co-spokesperson of Québec solidaire, said it best: “the era of the two-party system is finished in Quebec.” Indeed,...

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ROSA LUXEMBURG’S ETHICAL FEMINISMDrucilla Cornell -
July 2018

By Drucilla Cornell. In this essay, Drucilla Cornell discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s socialist feminism for our times. Presented as a keynote address at the annual conference of the International Rosa...

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THE FAR RIGHT IN GOVERNMENTStefanie Ehmsen and Albert Scharenberg (eds.) -
June 2018

We are currently witnessing a tidal change in global politics. The far right, which seemed to be on the retreat for decades, has staged a huge comeback. From Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines to Narendra Modi in India, from Jarosław...

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MAPPING THE RESISTANCEEthan Young -
May 2018

By Ethan Young. The day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, “The Resistance” was born in the streets of cities and towns across the United States. The grassroots-organized Women’s Marches, held on...

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THE TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONSRLS–NYC and IPB -
May 2018

With North Korea having now presumably equipped itself with a nuclear arsenal, and President Donald Trump having announced his intention to pull the United States out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the international geopolitical situation...

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OPTIONS FOR A UN TREATY ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTSHarris Gleckman -
April 2018

By Harris Gleckman. In 2014, Ecuador and South Africa initiated a resolution to create a human rights treaty to regulate the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises. Since 2015,...

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TRADE UNIONS AND JUST TRANSITIONSean Sweeney and John Treat -
April 2018

By Sean Sweeney and John Treat. The concept of “Just Transition” has become increasingly in vogue in recent years in international political circles. While commonly ascribed to be “transformative” in...

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THE UN FOUNDATIONBarbara Adams and Jens Martens -
March 2018

By Barbara Adams and Jens Martens. In the last two decades, we have witnessed significant changes in the engagement between the United Nations and the private sector. Private funding from corporations and philanthropic...

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LEFT DEMOCRATS IN SEARCH OF ANTI-TRUMP STRATEGYAlbert Scharenberg -
March 2018

Last weekend, the Congressional Progressive Caucus met for its annual strategy conference in Baltimore. For the first time, a delegation of European left-wing parties organized by the New York office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung...

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THE FEMINIZATION OF AGRICULTURECarolyn Sachs -
February 2018

By Carolyn Sachs. While women make up close to half of the world’s farmers, their access to agricultural resources and land is often severely limited. As a result, women are relegated to marginal environments (such...

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ONE STEP FURTHER TOWARDS GLOBAL REGULATION OF BUSINESSKarolin Seitz -
February 2018

By Karolin Seitz. Following a resolution initiated by Ecuador and South Africa in 2014, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations decided by a majority vote for the establishment of a process to create a human...

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By Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria. Following the celebration of the “creative city” (as described by Richard Florida), the “smart city” has become the new flavor of the month—and a brand. It makes clever...

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MUNICIPALISM IN SPAINVicente Rubio-Pueyo -
December 2017

By Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. In Spain’s municipal elections of May 2015, a constellation of new political forces emerged. For the first time in almost 40 years of Spanish democracy, the country’s major cities would no...

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NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE ACTION

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When nuclear power started to develop into an ever more important source of electric energy during the second half of the twentieth century, there grew widespread optimism regarding the potential of this seemingly unlimited, clean and, in the long run, economic resource. The unresolved problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste—which degrades...
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NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE ACTION

New publication by Tim Judson.
When nuclear power started to develop into an ever more important source of electric energy during the second half of the twentieth century, there grew widespread optimism regarding the potential of this seemingly unlimited, clean and, in the long run, economic resource. The unresolved problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste—which degrades very slowly, with a half-life of up to 15.7 million years—existed from......
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